The Process

How Americans vote is changing. New technologies allow voter identification at polls, and more people than ever are voting by mail. At the same time, there are more barriers to voter registration and early voting, and states are struggling to conduct open and fair elections during a time of tight budgets.

Florida voting rights advocates worry that the state's reduced days for early voting — and eliminating the Sunday before Election Day which has traditionally been when African American parishioners went to vote after church — aim to curtail minority voting. The Republican sponsor of the law says it's intended to give counties more time to set up for Election Day.